THE CS AND CE AMPLIFIERS 1.1.1. Common Source (CS) amplifiers EXERCISE 2 1 Consider the circuit in the following figure, given that R1 = 500 K, R2 = 1.4 M, RS = 33 K, RD = 82 K, R3 = 470 K, C1 , gm = 2 mA/V. a/ Draw its small-signal equivalent circuit in the low frequency domain. b/ Determine the voltage gain of this circuit at low frequency. c/ Determine the values of C2 and C3 such that the low cut-off frequency of this circuit is fL = 50 Hz.
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THE CS AND CE AMPLIFIERS 1.1.1. Common Source (CS) amplifiers EXERCISE 3 1 The common-source amplifier in the figure beside has VBE(ON) = 0.7 V, C3 , RI = 5 k, R1 = 430 k, R2 = 560 k, RS = 13 k, RD = 43 k, R3 = 240 k, IDQ = 0.2 mA, VDSQ = 5 V, VGS – Vtn = 0.7 V. a/ What is the value of VDD? b/ Draw the low-frequency equivalent circuits for this amplifier. c/ Determine the transfer function Av(s) = vo/vi at low frequency. d/ Find the lower-cutoff frequency (in Hz) of this amplifier using the short-circuit time-constant method.
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